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NAFTA superhighway underway in South Texas
I-69 through Texas will follow US 59 from Texarkana down through Houston and eventually south from Victoria to the valley. The valley will split off into three trunks: I-69W from US 59 to Laredo,...
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Tolling Texans by ‘rule change’: TxDOT’s end run around the legislature
The key to this new rule change is it obligates the ‘state highway fund’ to reimburse the private toll concession companies, but not from the collection of toll revenues. So every Texas taxpayer will...
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With toll road failures widespread, TxDOT issues state highway fund-backed...
The Texas state highway fund has been chronically underfunded as well as raided for non-road purposes, leaving the highway department few options for financing new construction other than debt and...
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Texas lawmakers can’t agree on road funding, third special session called
Currently only 47% of the state gas tax revenue actually makes it to roads – 25% goes to public schools, 5% goes to the Department of Public Safety, plus lawmakers routinely raid even more for non-road...
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Third Time’s the Charm: Texas Lawmakers Finally Pass Transportation Funding Bill
Road tax diversions have long been a sore spot with the public. Currently, 47% of the state’s gas tax is diverted to non-road purposes, primarily public education (25%) and the Department of Public...
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NAFTA Superhighway Underway in Northeast Indiana: Multinational Operators Vie...
According to INDOT, the 142-mile I-69 corridor is divided into six sections and gained approval by the Federal Highway Administration in March 2004. The first 67 miles opened in November 2012 between...
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Lawmaker to TxDOT: Time to say ‘We made a mistake’
Four state lawmakers and more than a dozen local officials, mostly mayors and county judges, descended upon TxDOT and blasted its recent actions for stepping on the sovereignty of cities and counties...
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Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiations wrap up in Brunei
Obama quietly started pushing the secretive TPP on an unsuspecting U.S. public in 2008 with an ambitious Asia-Pacific free trade region that would cover 40 percent of global economic output...
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Reagan Democrats, Texas and Globalization
Republican dominance in Texas since George W. Bush is threatened by multi-national corporate globalization. Governor Rick Perry’s push for a massive land-grabbing network of multi-modal NAFTA...
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RFID Spy Chips: Toll Tags & Tracking Drivers
Radio Frequency (RFID) readers are not limited to toll roads. One driver tweaked his toll tag to make a sound go off every time it’s detected and picked-up by an RFID reader. He discovered it went off...
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Texas: Downgrading paved roads to gravel and planning license plate...
In a state like Texas so rich in resources, with surpluses and so much going for it, it’s astounding that it can’t get its act together enough to maintain our road system. Downgrading 83 miles of...
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Protecting rural Texans’ water or feeding urban developers’ pet projects?
State leaders, including Governor Rick Perry, want to be able to funnel questionable economic development projects through local water boards. Since decisions will be made solely by the un-elected,...
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Texas downgrades foreign-owned toll road to junk bond status
All U.S. taxpayers are on the hook for repayment of a $430 million federal TIFIA loan on the SH 130 project. It’s the TIFIA loan that complicates any default and the potential for the tollway to be...
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TxDOT proposes elevated toll lanes over Interstate Highway 35
Governor Rick Perry appoints the five un-elected Transportation Commissioners, and they have been dutiful foot soldiers in implementing Perry’s proliferation of toll roads and even handing over control...
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Not toll viable: San Antonio tea party senator betrays grassroots
Citizens have no legal recourse to stop the vehicle registration fee money from being used to build toll roads since the law Senator Donna Campbell crafted has no prohibition on the money being used to...
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Taxes and more taxes: Big-money lobbyists sponsor transportation summit
Tolling, whether a public or privately-run project, is prohibitively expensive and a growing number of Americans are pushing back against this new form of taxation on their morning commute. It’s also...
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Toll tyranny and social engineering in local transportation policy
San Antonio’s proposal smacks of the European-style congestion tax imposed on downtown London, Stockholm and Milan, which carries serious implications for environmentally targeted cities all across...
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Foreign-owned toll road opens in Dallas
Congestion tolling or variable pricing involves speed guarantees in the toll lanes. Hence the term ‘managed’ lanes is applied to this new concept. It’s the ultimate form of government control of our...
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Cavuto decries government waste, challenges Congressman to admit where all...
Until transparency and truth in taxation are restored, it’s going to be a hard sell to get Americans to agree to any gas tax hike, especially if it gets siphoned off for toll projects, hike & bike...
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EPA-style state regulatory taking benefits private developer in Texas Hill...
The Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) interprets the Texas water code to consider all water that drains or collects in a channel as belonging to the state. The Lux ranch has a dry creek bed...
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